Taking MCAT with Gap Year

[RummyMD]

Alright so the plan is to take a gap year (I am a current senior) before I apply for med school and to take my MCAT early or late sometime this summer. My question is how should I structure when to take the exam if in my gap year I'll be taking some classes in order to replace some grades from freshman/sophomore year when I had a big adjustment period? How would this affect my application timetable? I'm also going to be volunteering/shadowing over the gap year with a possible part-time job if I don't find a research position. Mostly my issue is just setting up a proper timeline so I can plan everything out so the process can go smoothly. Any advice?

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[AquiVoy13]

Wait so you're not applying this upcoming cycle? You'll be applying in 2015? Because that would give you two gap years..

 

[kyamh]

Basically if you want to enter medical school in 2015 you need to take the MCAT this May and apply June/July of this summer. You will then have the 2014-2015 year as a gap year during which you will fill out secondaries in July/August and interview September-March. Anything you do during the gap year will not be on your application unless you send updates.

 

[Aerus]

Sounds like you're doing two gap years. Applying takes one year, remember. So submit your app next summer. Then you have that year long cycle as your second gap year.